Article on Dawkins

I’m swamped in Marine Biology, Human Nutrition, Genetics, some philosophy and other areas of study this weekend, so cheapo-posts will have to do. Here is an article about Richard Dawkins I found enlightening.
So he is genuinely puzzled by people calling him aggressive. “Well, I’m nothing like as aggressive as I’m portrayed. And I’m always being [...]

Dawkins on Colbert

Richard Dawkins will be appearing on The Colbert Report tonight at 11:30 / 10:30 Central.

The Greatest Show on Earth

Dawkins gives an intro to his new book (which I have already pre-ordered).

Obnoxious as hell

I just got through watching a debate between Richard Dawkins and John Lennox. It’s well worth watching. Lennox comes across as one of the more convincing Christians, and that’s primarily due to his style of rhetoric. “And so I would like to suggest” is usually his lead from the set-up of his argument into his [...]

The Argument From Scripture

This is part of a section from The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins. It can be found in chapter 3, “Arguments For God’s Existence”, under the section titled “The Argument From Scripture”. I have retyped this myself, so any typos are probably mine (except for “fulfil” – that’s apparently how the British spell it). The [...]

Thought of the day

Whatever the motive, the consequence is that if a reputable scholar breathes so much as a hint of criticism of some detail of current Darwinian theory, the fact is eagerly seized on and blown up out of all proportion. So strong is this eagerness, it is as though there were a powerful amplifier, with a [...]

Thought of the day

PZ Myers is the everyday voice of the atheist community. Richard Dawkins is the overarching tone-setter.

Thought of the day

Dawkins

What has theology ever said that is of the smallest use to anybody? When has theology ever said anything that is demonstrably true and is not obvious? I have listened to theologians, read them, debated against them. I have never heard any of them ever say anything of the smallest use, anything that was not [...]

The purpose of purpose